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Touching another person’s skin and thinking it’s super soft is an illusion that may help cement social bonds, one study finds.

"Unconscious ventriloquism" was used to explain one of the most bizarre supernatural cases in history.

In the mid-'90s, Kermit the Frog was the face of the 40-year-old Muppet brand and had both a movie and a TV show to promote. So he did what any single-person empire does while sitting atop their celebrity throne: he released a fragrance.

People could only submit their resumes after they solved two math puzzles.

Blood-soaked tales of murder, rape, and other crimes were written into popular songs and sung merrily in the streets.

This little town in upstate New York has stayed true to its spiritualist roots.

To this day, no one knows how or why hackers chose to take over two Chicago-area TV stations—or who, exactly, was responsible.

A few poorly phrased tweets don't seem nearly as bad when you see what these people did for press.

It looks like a license plate or a random jumble of letters and numbers put together by a preschooler. But “6EQUJ5” is the most tantalizing lead we have so far towards one day answering one of the most profound questions we can ask: is there intelligent l

Love soda, but hate yourself? Try heating up some Dr Pepper this winter.

First things first: You'll need to make sure the island you're interested in is covered in fecal matter.

Does subliminal advertising really work? It got attention for these companies.

I know I’m not the only one mesmerized by this phenomenally random photo of the retired 37th President of the United States palling around with The Future Of Law Enforcement.

The nicknames are supposed to be a tool for helping catch crooks, but it seems as if they’re really cooked up to keep special agents amused.

The town conned insurance companies out of millions in the 1950s. It only cost an arm and a leg (or dozens).

Their complexions became something of a scarlet letter—or an indigo letter, as it were.

Pteridomania was a fearsome ailment. Symptoms caused women to swoon, fall off of cliffs and entire species to fall into endangered status. But the contagious disease wasn’t one of the body—rather, “fern fever” was a fad that swept through England during t